A Pentagon document sent to Congress detailing plans to spend $1.6 billion of additional “training and arming” money on the ISIS war includes a plan to buy AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades to give to assorted Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey has talked up arming the tribes for some time, but with many of the tribes not on particularly good terms with the Iraqi central government, the decision was controversial.
The Pentagon is arguing for arming them anyhow, on the grounds that “not arming tribal fighters” will make them reluctant to fight against ISIS, which controls over 80 percent of Anbar.
Only one Sunni tribe in Anbar was on good terms with the central government, Albu Nimr, but ISIS has massacre hundreds of its members since then. Other tribes have so far been more or less willing to accept ISIS rule as at the very least no worse than living under the central government, and it’s not clear who these other tribes even might be.
Now what could possibly go wrong? Seems to me that this smells more like the intent is to arm everyone and then stoke the fires of sectarian differences and hatreds…and then wait for the dust to settle.
The Archons have to understand that eventually the US will have to pay for its duplicity. It is impossible to manipulate the entire world and have no one figure out what is going on.
I hope the American people figure it out first and stop the idiots pushing us towards the cliff.
For over 500 years the Sunni tribes ruled all of Iraq, every aspect of it’s government. So, as Empire USA wanted absolute confusion, total anarchy and such a civil war that never again would Iraq nationalize it’s oil fields and not evict all Western imperial stupidity from within it’s borders, the Sunny tribes were made powerless and persecuted.
So, as a last ditch effort to keep the Sunni tribes from organizing around the Islamic State, the few Sunni tribes that are pro-West are now given hardly enough weapons to get themselves killed.